23,571
24K
Aug 8, 2008
08/08
by
536 Productions
movies
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favorite 2
comment 1
AVATARA, a documentary about Traveler and its inahbitants (made in 2003) by 536 Productions of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Note that in the introductory audio dialogue, the speaker mentions the date of 1993, more likely this was 1996, the year Onlive Traveler was released to the public. This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
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Topics: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection, Damer, Bruce
25,337
25K
Nov 11, 2011
11/11
by
Tobias "Dopefish" Lundmark
movies
eye 25,337
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comment 0
The Nogg-aholics were a "community" of WoW players called the Nogg-aholic Collaboration (NAC). During their halcyon days, from 7 Jan. 2006 to 7. Jan 2007, they gathered instead around an information resource, the Nogg-aholic Forum, and a collaborative machinima project, "My Burning Valentine." Led by prominent WoW explorers such as Dopefish, Malu05 and Snoman, this group of players applied their "leet skills" to "explore the unexplored," a motto affixed...
Topics: World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, Nogg-Aholics, Dopefish, Lundmark, Tobias, Forg
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1.3K
Oct 5, 2016
10/16
by
Dr. Bruce Damer
movies
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comment 0
Virtual Worlds Timeline October 2016 walking tour, movies & images from Avatars98: Inside Cyberspace conference in Active Worlds.
Topics: avatars, virtual worlds, cyberconferences
880
880
Feb 17, 2011
02/11
by
William Sims Bainbridge
movies
eye 880
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comment 0
This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
116,534
117K
Aug 1, 2008
08/08
by
How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
movies
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comment 1
These are the last few minutes of EA-Land at the See You Soon Party in EA Town Hall, hosted by EA's Parizad. Tears are shed, final goodbyes are made, and lasting memories are created before the plug is pulled and the world is brought to an end. The party was held in the Community Pub (Test Center 3) and EA Town Hall (EA-Land), beginning Thursday, July 31st, 11 p.m and with a scheduled ending of 4 a.m. PDT. The game world was officially shut down as of 4:35am PST, August 1st, 2008. If you have a...
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Topics: EA-Land, The Sims Online, Archiving Virtual Worlds, Electronic Arts, Shutdown, Parizad, See You...
1,244
1.2K
Feb 15, 2011
02/11
by
William Sims Bainbridge
movies
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comment 0
This is a collection of more than 1200 screenshots taken in the MMORPG Anarchy Online, by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Anarchy Online, Funcom, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer Games
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Nov 11, 2011
11/11
by
William Sims Bainbridge
movies
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comment 0
This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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91
Feb 12, 2021
02/21
by
Generalkidd
movies
eye 91
favorite 0
comment 0
A new early beta build of Halo 3 is floating around now and there's actually quite a lot of very interesting things in it. Let's take a look at some of those cut weapons, vehicles and equipment!
Topics: halo, halo 3 beta, beta, game, cut content, cut, unused
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83
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From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Topic: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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1.3K
Mar 24, 2017
03/17
by
Allan Lundell, Bruce Damer
movies
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Featuring the "Avatars98-Inside Cyberspace" Cyberconference hosted by the Contact Consortium on November 21st, 1998. Full screen captures of the action inside the Active Worlds Av98 virtual world. This was the world's first cyberconference with live attendees represented as avatars (2 parts). Al captures walk throughs of major activities during this one day event including the Ground Zero meeting area, exhibit hall, art gallery, webcam wall, avvy awards stage and speaker pods accessed...
Topics: avatars, virtual worlds, Bruce Damer, cyberconference
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Jun 5, 2021
06/21
by
GeneralKidd
movies
eye 48
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comment 0
This version of the game had BackYard Hero assets in it, either this build was transitioning from halo to backyard hero or vice versa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYDU9eE9ubo
Topics: halo, backyard hero, cancelled, cut content, game, video game
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88
Feb 12, 2021
02/21
by
Generalkidd
movies
eye 88
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comment 0
In the recently discovered Halo 3 beta build, there was a unique never before seen Main Menu. It's the earliest version we've ever seen. Let's see what it looks like!
Topics: Halo, halo 3, halo beta, beta, game, menu, main menu, halo 2, unused, cut, cut content, cut menu,...
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543
Jun 10, 2011
06/11
by
William Sims Bainbridge
image
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comment 0
This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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2.1K
movies
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This is playthrough of Typing of the Dead (TotD) as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds 2 project. This collection includes play by Eric Kaltman, Daniel Doughtery, and Susan Rojo at How They Got Game (Stanford). The video of TotD on the Dreamcast was captured using a Flip video recorder.
Topics: Typing of the Dead, SEGA, Smilebit, Empire Interactive, How They Got Game Project, Preserving...
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163
Jan 31, 2021
01/21
by
Virtual World Studios and the Contact Consortium
movies
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Outtakes from the seminal Earth to Avatars conference hosted by the Contact Consortiym (founder Bruce Damer) and held in San Francisco on Oct 26-27th, 1996. Featured in the video are Bay Area cyberians helping birth the new media of avatar virtual worlds, multimedia and the Internet. Video shot and edited by Allan and Sun Lundell of Virtual World Studios, Boulder Creek CA. Full conference report at: https://ccon.org/conf96r/gallery.html
Topics: avatars, virtual worlds, conferences, virtual communities, early internet pioneers
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252
Feb 16, 2011
02/11
by
William Sims Bainbridge
movies
eye 252
favorite 0
comment 0
This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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161
Oct 28, 2010
10/10
by
Bruce Damer, Jim Woodring
movies
eye 161
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comment 0
Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from The Palace, an early avatar virtual world-1996-1997. Featuring cartoon avatars and objects by artist Jim Woodring.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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837
Nov 11, 2011
11/11
by
William Sims Bainbridge
movies
eye 837
favorite 0
comment 0
This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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149
Jan 30, 2021
01/21
by
Virtual World Studios and Contact Consortium
movies
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favorite 5
comment 0
A live screen capture of the world's first "cyberconference" with up to 800 simultaneous users represented as avatars in the Avatars98 conference hall hosted in Active Worlds on November 21, 1998. Creator of the event was the Contact Consortium chaired by Bruce Damer with dozens of volunteers building the space, talking, hosting art, webcams and special events. Background narration by Allan Lundell, Bonnie DeVarco and others as they screen captured this from Rainbow Ridge in Boulder...
Topics: avatars, virtual worlds, 3D, cyberconference, virtual community, Contact Consortium
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588
May 19, 2011
05/11
by
William Sims Bainbridge
movies
eye 588
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comment 0
This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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31
Jun 5, 2021
06/21
by
Generalkidd
movies
eye 31
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comment 0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5GJql86TQg&ab_channel=Generalkidd This is Back Yard Heros, it like Halo mega bloks was cancelled, but both used reskinned textures and vehicles, though this build is much different than the mostly known one
Topics: back yard heros, halo, game, cancelled, unreleased, mega bloks
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2.4K
Nov 11, 2011
11/11
by
Wright, Rob = Robbie Dingo
movies
eye 2,357
favorite 1
comment 0
"On August 3rd, Suzanne Vega performed in Second Life on the program The Infinite Mind, public radio's premiere health and science program. This is a machinima animated movie of Robbie Dingo making the guitar used by Suzanne at the event which entirely took place live within Second Life. It was the first broadcast to emanate live from 3D virtual cyberspace and the first major musical artist to perform live in Second Life. Visit www.lcmedia.typepad.com/the_infinite_mind for more on the...
Topics: Second Life, Linden Lab, Wright, Rob, Robbie Dingo, Vega, Suzanne
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32
Jun 4, 2021
06/21
by
PtoPOnline
movies
eye 32
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comment 0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlne2pXpVo&ab_channel=PtoPOnline This is one of the most popular known builds of Haggar, the cancelled Halo game
Topics: halo, cancelled. halo haggar, mega bloks, halo mega bloks, youtube, video. game. video game,...
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787
Feb 11, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 787
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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811
Feb 7, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 811
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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738
Feb 7, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 738
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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142
Jan 27, 2021
01/21
by
Bungie
movies
eye 142
favorite 0
comment 0
No, this isn't the 100K Subscriber Special (no idea what or when that'll be) so while you wait here's a little bonus video. We made this over 18 years ago, statute of limitations is up, and only gave it to Bungie employees. You can find all this on the internet, but here's how the DVD looked. Enjoy! 00:45 Main menu 01:06 Wazzup Spoof 02:20 Fanfest 2001 04:43 Dolby Surround Test 05:49 Ancient Halo 19:31 Easter Egg Grunt 20:14 Alternate Extractions ©2020 Marty O'Donnell Music LLC
Topics: halo, halo the movies, dvd, halo the movies dvd, Martin O'Donnell, halo ce
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675
Jan 25, 2017
01/17
by
Allan Lundell
movies
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comment 0
Avatars SIG Panel @ SIGGRAPH 1997 with Bruce Damer, Steve Dipaola and others. A few demos, scenes and people from the SIG at the Omni Hotel in Los Angeles are also included. Recorded by Allan Lundell of Virtual World Studios on August 7, 1997.
Topics: virtual worlds, avatars, SIGGRAPH
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86
Feb 26, 2021
02/21
by
Rocket Sloth
movies
eye 86
favorite 0
comment 0
What happened to Halo on the Nintendo DS? There was a prototype for Halo DS that was shown of a few years ago but what actually was that unreleased Halo Demo about? Was it a secret Halo project that Bungie was working on or was it something else? Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpJv... Rocketsloth2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrNH... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rocketsloth Livestreams: https://www.twitch.tv/rocketslothyt Join our Discord:...
Topics: halo, nintendo, bungie, demo, microsoft, halo 2, halo ds, youtube
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3.1K
May 25, 2012
05/12
by
Henry Lowood
movies
eye 3,086
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comment 0
This set of files and the write-up document efforts by Stanford's How They Got Game team, as part of the Virtual Worlds 2 project, to experiment with data input as a means for game software preservation auditing.
Topic: DOOM
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744
Dec 3, 2017
12/17
by
Henry Lowood
movies
eye 744
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comment 0
Peter Molyneux's Black & White (Lionhead Studios/Electronic Arts) was released in 2001. These recordings of gameplay were prepared in 2005 for use in lectures at Stanford University in the course "Humans and Machines."
Topics: Black & White, Lionhead Studios, Peter Molyneux, Electronic Arts
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721
Feb 6, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 721
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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1.3K
Mar 24, 2017
03/17
by
Allan Lundell
movies
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Featuring outtakes from the "Earth to Avatars" conference hosted by the Contact Consortium on October 26-27th, 1996 at the ANA Hotel in San Francisco. Features short cameos of: conference exhibitors showing virtual worlds with avatars, attendee conversations, panels, art events, and the Saturday night "come as your favorite avatars" Halloween party featuring the first annual Avvy Awards. Recorded by Allan Lundell of Virtual World Studios with appearances by conference...
Topics: avatars, virtual worlds, conference, san francisco, 1996
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959
Feb 16, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 959
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer tournaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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1.3K
Feb 7, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 1,283
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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94
Apr 11, 2021
04/21
by
343 Industries
movies
eye 94
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comment 0
From Mixer
Topics: Halo, 343 industries, halo 2, beta, demo, e3, youtube, mixer, bungie, halo, game, video game
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2.3K
movies
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This is playthrough of Typing of the Dead II (TotD) as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds 2 project. This collection includes play by Eric Kaltman, Daniel Doughtery, and Susan Rojo at How They Got Game (Stanford). The video of TotD on the PC was captured using FRAPS.
Topics: Typing of the Dead, SEGA, Smilebit, Empire Interactive, How They Got Game Project, Preserving...
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1.3K
Mar 31, 2012
03/12
by
Bruce Damer, CASCON Conference
movies
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VWTimeline: Bruce Damer's IBM CASCON 98 Avatars demo (Dec 1998, Toronto). Bruce Damer demonstrates first generation avatar virtual worlds on the Internet. Included is Traveler, Active Words and the Avatars98 cyber-conference held just two weeks previously, Stephen Spielberg's Starbright world, Biota and more.
Topics: avatars, virtual worlds, voice interfaces, avatars98
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751
Feb 6, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 751
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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763
Feb 6, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 763
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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2.2K
Nov 9, 2016
11/16
by
Dr. Bruce Damer
movies
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This is a web extract of Bruce Damer's classic book "Avatars! Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet" Published by Peachpit Press in October of 1997. Also included along with the full chapter text and images are extra appendices, interviews and tutorials. This PDF file is a dump of the book's public web site which was published on the CD-ROM and is also available online at: http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/book/fullbook/index.htm
Topics: avatars, virtual worlds, internet, chat rooms, virtual reality, multi-player games, early social...
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2.1K
Aug 8, 2008
08/08
by
DigiBarn Computer Museum
movies
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Digibarn: Original 1974 Maze War Version running on restored Imlac PDS-1 by Tom Uban (Nov 2004) This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection, Damer, Bruce
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357
Feb 16, 2011
02/11
by
William Sims Bainbridge
movies
eye 357
favorite 0
comment 0
This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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Jan 30, 2021
01/21
by
Virtual World Studios and Contact Consortium
movies
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favorite 4
comment 0
More screen captures of movement around the Avatars98 cyberconference hall with active users. By Allan Lundell (Virtual World Studios, Boulder Creek CA) with Bonnie DeVarco (avatar name: Hypatia), Galen Brandt (avatar name: AuntieGalen). Encounters with Bruce Damer (avatar name: DigiGardener). Active worlds technology employed by users and members of the Contact Consortium to create this first ever online conference and convention in a 3D space on the Internet.
Topics: Avatars, Contact Consortium, Cyberconference, Virtual World
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1.5K
Apr 19, 2012
04/12
by
Christopher Walker, South World Productions
movies
eye 1,468
favorite 1
comment 0
VWTimeline: SW City in Active Worlds by Christopher Walker (2006)
Topics: virtual worlds, avatars
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2.2K
Feb 9, 2012
02/12
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Bruce Damer, Galen Brandt
movies
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Who is Bruce is a short visual portfolio about Bruce Damer, his projects and life. See projects including Cyberwearz fashion, Weird Machines artwork, pioneering virtual worlds and avatars work, NASA mission visualization and design, the EvoGrid and life at Ancient Oaks Farm and the DigiBarn Computer Museum. From Bruce: this piece is used in my "Beyond 2012" performances during this, my fiftieth year on the planet. Great thanks go out to Dhiren Dasu for producing the soundtrack and to...
Topics: Damer, Bruce, Avatars, NASA, Outer Space, EvoGrid, DigiBarn Computer Museum, Brandt, Galen, Dasu,...
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1.0K
Aug 8, 2008
08/08
by
Worlds, Incorporated
movies
eye 1,023
favorite 3
comment 0
Worlds Inc: Worlds Chat, industrial demo of first Internet-based avatar world (May 1995 - exact date of video is unknown) This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection, Damer, Bruce
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792
Feb 11, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 792
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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1.1K
Feb 23, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
eye 1,146
favorite 0
comment 0
The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer tournaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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707
Nov 17, 2015
11/15
by
A Bit Lucky / Zynga
movies
eye 707
favorite 0
comment 0
This is the original trailer for the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) Solstice, developed by A Bit Lucky/Zynga. The trailer was released in April 2012, and the game was released for iOS (and later for Windows) in 2013.
Topics: A Bit Lucky, Zynga, Solstice, Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, MOBA
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1.6K
Aug 20, 2008
08/08
by
How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
movies
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This video captures the entire See You Soon Party in EA Town Hall, hosted by EA's Parizad. Tears are shed, final goodbyes are made, and lasting memories are created before the plug is pulled and the world is brought to an end. The party was held in the Community Pub (Test Center 3) and EA Town Hall (EA-Land), beginning Thursday, July 31st, 11 p.m and with a scheduled ending of 4 a.m. PDT. The game world was officially shut down as of 4:35am PST, August 1st, 2008. Many players knew each other...
Topics: EA-Land, The Sims Online, Archiving Virtual Worlds, Electronic Arts, Shutdown, Parizad, See You...
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Jan 5, 2018
01/18
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Allan Lundell
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1996 10 26 Avatar Behind The Scenes SF Balloon Elevator Liberty Lights Drumming Brett Leonard David Traub Stephanie Sutton Michael Moore Carla King Wendy Sue Noah Fantuzzi Sun Bruce On 360 Turntable
Topics: Avatars, virtual worlds
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Jan 6, 2018
01/18
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Allan Lundell
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1996 10 26 Earth 2 Avatars Out Takes Brett Kelly Steph Scully Vocce Om Alex Utterman Rob Tow Kitty David Traub Peter Bruce Damer Pan
Topics: Avatars, virtual worlds
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Feb 7, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
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The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer torunaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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880
Feb 14, 2014
02/14
by
Bibliotheca Anonoma Task Force
movies
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The 4chan Cup ============= The 4chan Cup is a series of virtual soccer tournaments played between soccer teams, that represent nearly every board on 4chan. The teams, the commentators, and the fans of the cup powerfully depict each board's unique culture, rivalries, and traditions. The 2013 4chan Summer Cup had over 2,700 unique viewers for it's most popular matches, a viewership that rivals that of physical soccer tournaments. Check out the spectacular introduction by Ken Ashcorp: Promo:...
Topics: 4chan, The 4chan Cup, Sports, E-Sports, Pro Evolution Soccer, Soccer, Football, Bibliotheca Anonoma
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695
Jan 24, 2017
01/17
by
Allan Lundell, Virtual World Studios
movies
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Bruce Damer interviewed on the current state of "Avatars" in 1996 by Allan Lundell at a Santa Cruz Beach House Party on 29th of December 1996. Bruce describes the state of virtual worlds, including AlphaWorld, and Onlive Traveler and their prospects for 1997. This interview was just two months after Bruce hosted the first conference on avatars/virtual worlds on the internet, Earth to Avatars.
Topics: virtual worlds, california culture
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Jan 31, 2021
01/21
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Virtual World Studios and Contact Consortium
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Two events in March 1996: (1) Conversations at Intermedia SF with T ony Bove, Michael Morgan, John "Crunch" Draper & Wes Thomas, interlude at Rainbow Ridge in Boulder Creek. (2) March 8th CONTACT Conference where Bruce Damer hosted first ever symposium featuring the avatar worlds with discussants Maclen Marvit, Bonnie Nardi, Mitch Waldrop, Jim Funaro and others. Roger & Nancy Zuidema and Epona COTI world featured. Full details at: https://ccon.org/org/eevents.html#symp
Topics: Avatars, Virtual Worlds, CONTACT, Contact Consortium, Virtual Communities
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Jan 24, 2021
01/21
by
Bungie
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Some Halo 3 maps that were changed
Topics: halo 3, halo, unused, unused content, cut, cut content
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534
Jul 29, 2008
07/08
by
How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
movies
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Many players gather for dancing at a popular club in Second Life. It also features a camping system of sorts to make linden bucks (the currency in Second Life). This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Topics: Second Life, Archiving Virtual Worlds, Linden Lab, Dance Club, degtiar
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297
Aug 8, 2008
08/08
by
Allan Lundell
movies
eye 297
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This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection, Damer, Bruce
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572
Oct 15, 2009
10/09
by
Bernhard Drax
movies
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This machinima documentary by Bernhard Drax is a "chronicle of the development of GONE GITMO, a virtual installation of Guantanamo Bay Prison in Second Life. GONE GITMO is a collaboration between Nonny de la Pena and Peggy Weil." For more information, see the Gone Gitmo website, http://gonegitmo.blogspot.com. This website also includes a direct link via SLURL to Gone Gitmo on Network Culture Island in Second Life. It also includes press links. Gone Gitmo was a European, Every Human...
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Topics: Second Life, Linden Lab, Drax, Bernhard, Weil, Peggy, De La Pena, Nonny, Gone Gitmo, Guantanomo Bay
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Aug 4, 2011
08/11
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Paul Driscoll
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Welcome to my History of Video Games where I try to tell the story from its beginnings through to the present day and the future. On reading video game histories I have always been frustrated by many of the systems I and my friends grew up with in the UK not being mentioned or at best being only given a foot note. The reason is of course many of these publications are American in origin and so of course over there these systems were little known about. Also a lot of these books didn't cover...
Topics: DSK, Reto, Game, History, Sega, Nintendo, Atari, Amiga, C64, Spectrum, GTA, Game, Gaming, Pac
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447
Oct 28, 2010
10/10
by
Bruce Damer, Karen Marcelo et al., Biota.org
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images, documents and movies from the biologically inspired Nerve Garden world-1997. SIGGRAPH Electric Garden installation shots are also included in this set (August 1997).
Topics: Virtual Worlds, SIGGRAPH, Artificial Life
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453
Sep 2, 2010
09/10
by
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources
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Life Squared is a virtual archive of the first site specific art exhibit which was created by Lynn Hershman-Leeson at the Dante Hotel in San Fransisco. This video provides a look into the Life Squared exhibit created in the virtual world Second Life to show case a small portion of the archives of Hershman-Leeson held by the Stanford University Libraries. Developed as part of the Preserving Vritual Worlds Project.
Topics: Life Squared, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, Second Life, Linden...
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223
May 18, 2011
05/11
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William Sims Bainbridge
movies
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This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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Jul 29, 2008
07/08
by
How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
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A Horde Player vs. Player (PvP) guild called "Learn to PvP" raids Stormwind and Ironforge on the Frostmane realm (server). The raid begins with the first contact with the Alliance at the entrance of Stormwind, goes through runs as a ghost and attempts to rush back, and finally a run through the tram system along with a final rush into Ironforge. At the end, guild members see who can stay alive the longest in the enemy city. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual...
Topics: World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, Guilds, Player vs. Player, PvP, Learn to PvP, Raids,...
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May 19, 2011
05/11
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William Sims Bainbridge
movies
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This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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Aug 21, 2008
08/08
by
How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
movies
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MonkeyBear opens a museum showcasing the many popular, rare, and special objects and events that could be found in TSO/EA-Land over the years. From cannons to Mystic Trees to rare pets and old cities, MonkeyBear's Sims Online Museum leads us through a brief history of The Sims Online and EA-Land. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Topics: EA-Land, The Sims Online, Archiving Virtual Worlds, Electronic Arts, Sims Online Museum,...
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Feb 16, 2011
02/11
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William Sims Bainbridge
movies
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This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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Aug 8, 2008
08/08
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Starbright Foundation
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This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection, Damer, Bruce
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104
Feb 17, 2011
02/11
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William Sims Bainbridge
movies
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This is a collection of screenshots taken in the MMORPG Tabula Rasa by social science researcher William S. Bainbridge. Dr. Bainbridge is currently co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. He contributed the screenshots to the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection as part of the Preserving Virtual Wrolds project.
Topics: Tabula Rasa, Destination Games, NCSoft, Bainbridge, William Sims, Screenshots Massively Multiplayer...
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80
Mar 27, 2021
03/21
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Bungie
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Images of Halo 2 unused maps
Topics: halo, halo 2, maps, unused, unused maps, images, game
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62
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From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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81
Jun 19, 2009
06/09
by
Contact Consortium
movies
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From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection, Damer, Bruce
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404
Jul 29, 2008
07/08
by
How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
movies
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This well-designed region features many art exhibits and focuses on aesthetic appeal. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Topics: Second Life, Archiving Virtual Worlds, Linden Lab, AngelGate, Museums, Art, degtiar
